To Dream Or Not To Dream..

I thought the point of sleep was to rest. To wake up and greet the day with, "Good morning, Morning! Hi ho, hi ho, off to tackle the day I go!"   Well, the last few mornings I have been waking up thinking, "I have to get up already? But I just got done helping my sister build a ship! And I was being held at gunpoint not more than 20 minutes ago...I'm beat!"  Let me tell you, dreaming is hard work! Do you ever feel that way?  Sure, the ones you have where you are going on a date with Adam Levine or having Lincoln Burrows from Prison Break save your life and whisking you away are fabulous!  But ones like last night, where I spent the whole night running away from some very pissed off gang members (I was holding an antique western pistol that accidentally went off while I was talking and just so happened to hit a gang guy) are exhausting. Instead of being able to run and hop off in a car, the streets were water ways.  My best friend, Jackie, and I had to leap onto a floatie raft that you see at pools and paddle our way across town. Then I end up in this building where club music is playing, but it's deserted. The lights flicker from pitch black to black light. Off. On. Off. On. Almost like I am set up in a game.  Kind of reminded me of Resident Evil. Then I was swarmed with big guys carrying guns.  I threw up my hands, feeling very overwhelmed, and said, "I'm done. I am not running anymore..please let this just be a dream. Here I am..."  Then I awake. Two minutes later my alarm goes off.  Sigh.

I am tired! Internally and externally just drained. I've been proud of myself for going to sleep before midnight every night during the work week for the last few weeks (those who know me know I am a complete night owl and can easily stay up until 4am) but really I feel like I have only gotten an hour or two of sleep the last couple nights.

Oh well...next time I lose sleep to adventures in slumberland, it better include the cast from 300 and some pina coladas. S'all I'm sayin'!

A Surprise?? For Moi??

I would like to state that I have a pretty darn amazing hubby! All last week he was telling me that on Saturday (yesterday) I have to get up early so we can go and watch a rugby game at Sac State followed by a BBQ at one of the other Captain's house (the BBQ, I was excited for...the whole waking up early thing, I was not). So, Saturday comes around, I get up early, throw on clothes that I think will be suitable for both a game and an outdoors BBQ and we head out. I notice after a while we are entering a neighborhood that looks familiar (it happened to be a friend of ours) and we pull up in a driveway. I am told we are just picking this friend up on the way since he came along with us last weekend to this Captain's house. Okay, fine, no biggie.  We are sitting around for a minute or two and then Kyle (our friend) offers to pop some champagne before heading out.  Now that shot up a red flag for me. Champagne? Before a manly rugby game? And so early in the morning? After the look I see Matt send Kyle I then notice that they were up to something. And I was right! Minutes later some other friends of ours start walking in the front door. Apparently, Matt got everyone in cahoots to meet at the house and then be on our way to Lodi Wineries for some wine tasting (which is funny because I suggested on Thursday or Friday that we go this weekend)!


There was a group of about 8 of us and it was so much fun! We visited maybe 4 (more or less) wineries that we have yet to venture to over the course of the living here. I don't know why we haven't checked these places out in the past..the owners/employees were super nice and were actually very informative about their wine selections. One of the wineries apparently holds a silent movie night once a month and have this amazing guy come out and play the organ to the movie (the organ was one that was built for movie music and sound effects). Along with that the establishment serves wine, snacks, popcorn, etc. Fun! I totally want to go one day before we move!


After much wine tasting, the group moved along to Outback for dinner (I was craving cheesefries!). We had a couple drinks, ate great food, and enjoyed our company. After that, we called it a night. Man, wine really makes one sleepy!! I could hardly keep my eyes open on the drive home (Matt drove, not me!)!  So, that was my amazing birthday surprise spent with Matt and some great friends! And they all did a great job at keeping it a secret! I think that surprises me more than the surprise itself (haha!)!